Mindfulness Meditation has been practiced by Buddhists and others throughout most of the world for twenty-five hundred years, but only recently in the western world and only in the United States since the 1960s. Mindfulness is more than meditation however. Mindfulness Meditation transforms a person’s awareness into focusing on theContinue Reading
One of the beautiful aspects of Mindfulness Meditation is that it can be done anywhere whenever you have a few uninterrupted minutes. The White Room Meditation is a five-minute exercise of watching your thoughts come and go. A simple practice of observing your mind at work. The Room Imagine youContinue Reading
Transcendental Meditation (TM), just as mindful meditation has at its core ancient knowledge from Indian writings, some of the oldest traditions in the world. Prior to its introduction to the United States in 1959 by Maharuishi Mahesh Yogi, people in the western world were skeptical that the practice of meditationContinue Reading
Since 1987, articles written on selected negative emotions have outnumbered those on positive emotions by seventeen to one. New studies of happiness and health have demonstrated a shift from learned helplessness and depression to optimism and thriving. Positive psychology is an all-encompassing phrase that describes the study of positive characterContinue Reading
Low self-esteem can be defined as a lack of faith or confidence in one’s abilities and competence. While self-confidence can fuel success, low self-esteem can hinder it. Mental Disorder? Is low self-confidence considered a mental illness? Low self-esteem in and of itself isn’t a mental disorder but it can pointContinue Reading
It is true that we are formed by our parents’ genes at the moment of conception, but it is also true that our ancestral history helped form us as a species. An Open System The debate in psychology of nature vs nurture is one of the oldest. It is trueContinue Reading
Each day of our life we gradually grow in self-awareness. Our daily experiences are added to our personality, enlarging our self-definition. The interests and talents we acquire not only build and define us in a physical way, they also define and expand our boundaries in an unseen way. This invisibleContinue Reading
Having the ability to get in touch with authentic feelings, i.e., true thoughts and emotions, is more important than psychological explanations. The first and most important process is learning self-awareness, and to focus that awareness on the feelings of the present moment. This allows one to directly experience his or herContinue Reading
Self-disclosure is a vital ingredient of loving relationships. It is the unselfish revealing of intimate details about ourselves, our likes and disklikes, dreams, aspirations, worries, our proud and shameful moments, our inner secrets. As one person reveals a little, so will the other person. Self-disclosure breeds liking, and liking breedsContinue Reading
Beginning at a very early age, our ability to find meaning, purpose, happiness and love in our lives is made difficult by the introduction of our “ideal self,” as opposed to our authentic “real self,” the self we were born with. Demands of Society This ideal self, as proposed byContinue Reading